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Stuff I found in my car

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My car is like the Bermuda Triangle.  Things go in.  Nothing comes out.  Until yesterday.

Jeremy asked me if I would be able to empty out the car so that he could clean the bad boy up and take it in for new brakes and “the works”.  I promised.  I shouldn’t have.  But I did.  I immediately regretted it.

It was a near death experience people.  It took me thirteen trips…back and forth from the car to the kitchen with TONS of stuff.  After sorting through the receipts, the trash, the Sonic happy hour route 44 cups, the old food, these items are what I found to be most interesting.  Of course, it goes without saying (except I’m saying it now) that this is one of those odd lifestyle posts….probably only peaks the interest of a rare bird like me.  It’s like peaking inside someone’s medicine cabinet.  Get ready…it’s gonna get weird up in here…

CATEGORY:  FOOD

There was a lot of unedible food found.  The food that did not start to digest itself is mostly the prepackaged items…like baby puffs and unhealthy snacks.  I also found two insulated lunch bags.  score.

DIAPER GEAR:

This is the diaper changing stuff I found that WAS NOT IN THE DIAPER BAG.  Yes.  Our fully stocked diaper bag is a different story altogether.  Basically my car is ready for poop-armeggedon.

SHOES & SUNGLASSES:

I found it interesting that I didn’t find a single pair of my sunglasses.  Those must be lost in my closet.  Along with that random Weston shoe.  (down side of finding stuff…you didn’t realize a shoe was lost before finding the pair).  On the bright side, I did find Will’s sunglasses…which was the source of an hour long breakdown the other day.

CLOTHING:

I honestly didn’t realize that there was so many clothing items in my car.  Included here are a pair of shoes…not shown above because they need to be washed before wearing.  Thing that excited me most…my nursing cover…now I won’t flash the peeps at church when I nurse in the foyer.  Nothing says “fellowship” like a stray boob.

JEWELRY:

Seven necklaces.  One and a half pair of earrings.  I feel like I just went shopping 🙂

TOYS:

Note…Will gets to pick one toy to take in the car….yup.  And I have no idea where the controller is to the remote control car.

MONEY:

I spent a half hour waiting in line the other day to get change for a dollar so that Will could throw a penny in a wishing fountain because I was convinced that I had zero coins in the car.  And the Chickfila card is just as good as money in our house.

Hair Items:

I guess I wear a lot of headbands.  I am going out on a limb and saying that Will brought in the combs FROM THE HOUSE and not some random parking lot.

CRAFT ITEMS:

Who knew?!  I was quilting?!

MAKEUP:

My makeup is in the blue bag.  The rest of the stuff…well…I don’t know where that came from.  I’m willing to bet the Very Sexy for Men is not Will’s or Weston’s.

OFFICE STUFF:

One unpaid bill, one unsent letter (I remember now that it has the wrong address for my uncle), one journal, one package of thank you notes, one roll of washi tape, two packages of business cards, eight pens and one unsharpened Monster’s Inc pencil.   I could freaking run a legit business with all this stuff.

CLEANING & TOILETRIES:

It’s far to say that I could live in my car.  I would just be missing a toothbrush.  I’m actually kinda shocked there wasn’t one in there.  Also, I left out the tampons and the random used pregnancy test….you’re welcome 🙂

WEIRD STUFF:

That Daddy Day Care movie is not ours.  I don’t know why we had three Happy Birthday gift bags, I’m fairly certain Jeremy bought the black Rustoleum paint for our railings, and the toddler baseball gloves?  plural?  whose are those?!  As for the black glove…I’m pretty sure that OJ’s not gonna claim it.

Honorable mentions included:

  • three large tablecloths
  • three strollers
  • a beach bag
  • two bath towels
  • one washcloth
  • three beach towels
  • three packages of Tums
  • my lost glasses
  • 244 receipts (front runners: Chickfila & Taco Bell)
  • 17 partially eaten pieces of candy
  • three cell phone cases
  • four used swim diapers
  • six articles of under garments (party in the Bower car!)
  • five power cords to unknown electronics

Now the car is oh-so clean and pretty.  It smells awesome.  And there is nary a rouge chicken nugget to be found.

So what’s the weirdest random item you ever found in your car?!

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  1. I think this might be the best blog post I have ever read. Ever. You’re awesome. And you must have a freakin huge car!

  2. This was hilarious! I’ve always wanted to take pics to document what was in my purse – now I’m convinced that I need to just do it 🙂 It’s so fun to see someone whose car is just as messy as ours!!!

  4. My car would be like that if it wasn’t for my husband. We are a one car family and every time I am out with the kids without him, I know that night I will see him trudging up the stairs giving me evil looks. But the car will be clean! I think it’s only fair since I provide a fairly clean house! Weirdest thing had to be the mice that nested all inside our car! They were very expensive uninvited guests!

  9. This is one of your funniest posts ever! I am shocked, I kept scrolling thinking that was it but no… I think we can all identify with this but just wondering, with all those office supplies and provisions for diaper disasters, could you still fit a stroller in there? 🙂

  10. I love this! I really hope you drive an SUV!?!?

    I was borrowing my then boyfriends car at the time and I actually found the box to my engagement ring before my husband proposed, but the ring wasn’t in it (I wasn’t trying to be snoopy either – he had stolen one of my CD’s and I was looking for it). He apparently bought the setting and stone at different times and it was at the jewelers to have it set. Probably a good thing too – I would have starting wearing it that day! Oh…he still doesn’t know that story either!

  11. I swear if I went out to my car right now, I would find 99% of the same items, so I can totally sympathize with you! At least your car is clean now, right?

  12. Oh my god, we could be twins as far as car storage goes. When I sold my Rav to my folks a few weeks ago I cleaned it out so it could be detailed – I now have to declutter my half of the garage! I couldn’t believe the stuff I found in there. My honorable mention is one Santa earring, I have no idea where the other one is. I can’t even tell you how many toys and food items there were, not to mention the packages of wipes. I am trying to clean out my new Odyssey every week so it doesn’t get as bad… I give that about three months before I start to slip due to the insanity of two toddlers and a black lab sharing my van.

  13. ‘Nothing says fellowship like a stray boob’. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!! One day, a long time ago, I nearly opened the front door to the mailman with a boob hanging out….

    Oh, thanks for the laugh.

    I love posts like these too! Seriously, do you own a campervan??? I am amazed (and impressed) at what came out of your car. I am one of those annoying people who has a pretty spic and span car most of the time (I get the heebie jeebies if there is stuff in there) but it amazes me to see what other folks keep in there. To be clear, I honestly don’t feel ANY judgement whatsoever, each to his own. Just fun to peek!

  14. I guess I am one of those rare birds … cause I a.d.o.r.e. this post. Also, I wonder how big of a car you have?! Assuming you have two car seats in there like I do, there would be no other surfaces visible if this list was applied to my little civic. 🙂

    And a clothing question: what is the white with blue poms?! It looks adorable.

  15. Wow! That is A LOT of stuff! Kind of amazing there was room for you and the boys!

    The strangest thing I ever have found in my car was an invasion of weevil bugs…everywhere! Apparantly, I had left a bag of flour in the trunk of the car for a LONG time and it attracted those little critters…and then they came and moved into every nook and cranny of my car…SO GROSS!

    Now, as a mother of 2 teenage boys, I mainly find lacrosse balls, tennis balls, the occasional golf tea, spoon, a can of soup!?, dirty socks, empty water bottles,and candy wrappers….

    I think my favorite part of your stash was Will’s array of toys….brought back great memories.

  17. this made me laugh so much. OH, HOW I CAN RELATE. I need to clean out my car, for real…but ain’t nobody got time for that…especially with a newborn! 😉

    My favorite sentence of your entire blog: “Basically my car is ready for poop-armeggedon.”
    I’m still laughing over that one.

  18. Holy cow! That’s pretty impressive. I don’t know what kind of car you drive, but I’m pretty sure it takes diesel.

  21. Ha..! I thought I had a lot in my car! Just think of how much gas you will save now that you have lightened the load! ..and all the “new” stuff you have in the house now!

  22. oh my word. i wish you would have taken before/after pics. i’m tempted not to believe you but why would anyone make all that up, ha! i saw a pic of your truck in the background of one of your garage pics. i used to have a truck like that and it’s big. so was all this stuff if the “way back” (that’s what we call it), or were all zones given equal love?

    glad it’s all clean and tidy now. enjoy! 🙂

  23. This post is absolutely hilarious! As a person who compulsively cleans out my car I can’t understand how you could possibly fit all of this in your car!! I think I’m going to bookmark this for a good laugh next time I’m having a bad day 🙂

  25. i think this might be my favorite post! i love that the used pregnancy test was too “normal” to be put in the “weird stuff” category.

  26. Sounds like my car – but add in .22 bullets(?) (no gun); 2 baseball bat bags; a box of beef flavored rice-a-roni; a tag that should e on the boat trailer but rides in my car; a melted candle; a jar of pepper sauce from my mom; & unused cans of silly string. I LOVE having a clean car… but apparently not enough to keep it that way.

    Loved this post! xo

  27. I seriously laughed right out loud as I was reading this!! I too, am a car hoarder and this just made me feel better about all the junk that is so cozily sitting in my jeep as we speak:) Thanks for being real! p.s. favorite line? “Nothing says ‘fellowship’ like a stray boob”. Seriously, you are the bomb.

  28. This post made me feel so normal thank you!!! I found random candles and Christmas ornaments and every sonogram picture of my 2 girls in my trunk, ha!

  29. Girl how do you fit people in there?? lol I’ve never been one to keep things in my car. But I don’t have kids and I can fit all the essentials in my purse…you know, bouncy balls, kleenex, rubber bands, 8 pens (seriously, what if they run out?), snacks, lotion..I could go on. Everything a grown woman needs! haha Now the outside of my car is a different story-thank you neighborhood birds!

  30. This. is. HILARIOUS! I thought I was pretty bad about cleaning out my car, but you take the cake! 🙂 Thanks for sharing your awesomeness with us!

  31. Ps- clarification- it made me feel normal bc I too have a million and one random items on my car. Didn’t want you to think bc I said it made me feel normal that that implied you weren’t 🙂

  32. And all of you still fit in the car! I think you’ve got enough for a yard sale!

  33. What kind of car do you drive….a freakin’ MAC truck?!?!

    Love this post!! It made my car seem almost normal 😉

  37. WOW! LOL! That’s all I got for that!! Haha The vehicle will be 50 pds lighter now!! 🙂

  38. So when I read this title I was all, “oh this girl is on my level….I bet I still have her beat though”

    But sadly, I have to pass my crown. Although I believe once I have kids and an SUV I will be a fierce competitor 🙂

    I bet you feel like you just got a brand new car!!!

  40. I just want to “like” this as if it was a facebook post. This sounds like my car, but I have no kids. I swear, the dog drags this stuff in.

  42. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha :O)

    I’m laughing with you, I promise.

    I am so thankful for this blog and for your honesty at all times.

    I just cleaned out our van (we have 5 kids – ages 12, 7, 5, 2, and 7 months) and I filled an .75 of a paper Trader Joe’s grocery bag with trash/food, 1.5 grocery bags with clothes and shoes, took out many, many, many recyclable water bottles, and another Trader Joe’s bag with miscellaneous stuff that did not belong in the car. And I still didn’t clear out all of the sides of the doors and stuff!

    It took two payments of $2.00 a piece at the gas station to get it all vacuumed out after a pretzel explosion, several trips to the beach, and so on. Craziness!

    That car is still not clean, but at least I know where all of my seven year old’s socks, shoes, and church shirts disappeared to! (He and his 5 year old sister sit in the way, way back of the van together, and I ask him to gather all of his things every single time we leave the car!)

    Lord, have mercy.

    Thank you for showing me that I’m not the only one with a stuffed car. I feel much better now. I think.

  43. This is great! How long will it stay clean? I have a 1 yr old and a 3 yr old boy…they always *need* to take all their crap in the car…lovies, matchbox cars, books, bath toys, sippy cups, receipts, Starbucks cups tend to take over. It helps to have a basket to toss all the stuff in and I vacuum it out every few weeks. We also have Buckley – a hairy Golden Retriever – who rides in the way back of the minivan once in a while…somehow his hair is everywhere. Hey, you should just get a minivan, it practically cleans itself.

  45. I am trying to figure out how there was any room for people in your car with all that stuff!! Hysterical. I feel like my car is pristine now!!

  46. Thank you for making me feel so much better about the chaotic state of my car!!!!! 🙂

  47. This post made me realize that I am not alone. My husband gets on my case for my car being so dirty. What he doesn’t factor in is I have 2 other little people adding their stuff to my car. I still find combos from a ear ago when I stow my seats. Thank you for a great laugh.

  48. This post made me so happy. My husband continually complains about the disaster that is my car. When I showed him these pictures I think he felt better about my car situation. ****NO OFFENSE**** I’ll be honest, I had to fill a giant bag with junk and chuck it in my trunk today (while my co-workers watched awkwardly) so they had a place to sit when we went to lunch!

  49. I should show this post to my husband. Just yesterday, he remarked at now my car needed to be cleaned (and by “cleaned” he means the dashboard is a little dusty and a few crumbs need to be vacuumed up – and I’m only snacking in the car because it’s the only way to tame this pregnancy nausea). I politely smiled and nodded, kindly not mentioning that every time I go out with my coworkers for lunch, they marvel at how clean my car is!

    In his defense, we both come from families with parents who have very UNtidy vehicles, so we both tend to keep our vehicles fairly clean all the time.

  50. I love this post! My least favorite thing to find in the car is a sippy cup of curdled milk-it’s like we’re running a cheese factory sometimes!

  52. Awesome post! Love that you keep it real and fun too! My question is… Was the used pregnancy test positive? 😉

  54. This is too funny! I love the random things I find when I clean out our van 🙂 My husband drives a little Honda Civic and the last time I looked in his trunk there were items in there from two moves ago! So there’s a rusty old metal wall hanging that has been in his trunk for 2+ years and through two whole-family moves. I’m not touching that thing 🙂

  55. Oh my word, that is so funny! I could sell you some thirty-one bags to organize all that stuff…just sayin’! But seriously, I get mad because I can never find a ponytail holder in my car when I need one.

  57. Wow just wow! So impressive! 🙂 I’m going to show this to my husband when he complains about my car 🙂

  58. Very funny post! And I saw that you have disposable diapers in your car. Are you using cloth diapers for Weston?

  61. Fun post! One of my good HS friend’s mom took her new car to get some work done and the workers found a bag of weed under the drivers seat! She thinks the previous owner must have forgotten to clean out there secret stash before they sold the car haha. I’m not sure what happened to the bag – ill have to ask my friend if she remembers.

  62. Did you look under the car seats? If I pull my carseats out, there is no end to the amazement that hides beneath them!

  63. I cannot even compete with you! I’m totally showing this to my husband next time he complains about my car. So THANK YOU for that. You’re such a help. 🙂

  65. Seriously…my husband and I just read this on separate devices at the same time and stopped to take notes on the hilarity. Great post. If I had a dollar for every stray French fry hanging out under my seats, I would be a millionaire – so I feel you on this.

  66. My hubby has been complaining he couldn’t find any of the dozen and a half Tupperware containers that we have (the ones I usually take my lunch in) Today he cleaned out my truck…all 16 were in shopping bags in my backseat. 2 were so scary he threw them right in the garbage, 3 had random knitting projects in the bags with them, 2 had books in there with them, 1 had 14 trashy gossip magazines in the bag, and 2 had my missing pairs shoes in there too.

  67. I am impressed. Completely. Utterly. Impressed.

    Today, I opened the car door and looked right at my husband and said, “why does it smell like a fart in here?”

    It was a side of veggies from Panda Express… apparently, forgotten to be taken out of the car from JUST yesterday! Otherwise, my car is pretty clean.

  68. I loved this post! Random life posts are my favourite. I don’t know what the most random thing I’ve ever found in my car was… But I find a lot of things I think I’ve lost in my car… But if it makes you feel better, I find random things in other unexplained places (oh hello socks on my driveway, or several pairs of my childhood best friends socks on my lawn when the snow melted in spring? Oh and side note, I’ve dropped more than one phone in the toilet. That should make you feel better. 🙂

  69. Holy Cow KB! I thought this post was never going to end, it just kept getting better. I can’t believe how much stuff you had in your car, and….then you sorted it to photograph. That’s why we love you! Xx. I’m willing to bet that, not only the trip to the mechanics that you car is making, but getting rid of all that stuff, makes your ride so much more efficient now. You should feel how much lighter it is just driving around. Haha. Oh, and you can probably put some more stuff in there, from thrift shops and Home Depot etc…. Thanks for this post.

  70. What else would one eat at poop-margeddon BUT rogue chicken nuggets. Are they really rogue – if you’re saving them in advance?

    Clean cars are such a lovely gift 🙂 As for trunks – so overrated. Give me my one, four year old, and their clean and dirty underwear/diapers anytime. I’m always ready to be their mom

  71. the running joke is that if it goes into the car, its considered never to be seen again.
    I’ve said this before, I love you katie, this could be my car on any given day.
    well, minus the diapers, (kids are all grown) but yeah, I could make a centerpiece for a wedding in no time flat.

  72. WOWZERS! That was impressively awesome! Your boys are probably doing cartwheels now that they have so much room in the car. My husband refers to my car as a garbage can on wheels. I blaim the kids. 🙂

  75. I seriously think this might be my favorite blog I have read on your site! It makes me feel so much better to know I’m not alone in the crazy messy car club. I love your openness with your readers! Keep it coming!

  76. I love this!!! I should clean my car to see how much random garbage is in it! And I’m sure we would have the same amount if CFA and Taco Bell receipts! Ha!

  77. This is awesome! Crazy car stuff story: we sold our car to a man and his two sons. Cleaned it up prior to dropping it off, but thought I would do a final check in their driveway. Yep, glove box chuck full of tampons. I opted to save face for the moment and leave them where they were. Surprise! Fast forward a bit, and we’re doing a final walk thru of our camper…hubby comes out and shoves something in my hand. A foil package? woops.

  78. I woud have LOVED to see a picture of the inside of the car before you cleaned it out. Story of my life.

  80. “Nothing says fellowship like a stray boob.” Hahaha!!

    Not sure I’ve ever found anything really weird in my car, just the usual junk (and lots of it!).

  81. I think this is one of my favorite posts ever. Freaking hilarious and awesome. That list just kept going! Wow!

  82. Loved this post!! I also enjoy knowing these kinds of things about people, it’s somehow like people watching, it’s a glimps of some part of someone…..I’d say I got that your ALWAYS PREPARED from the contents in your bus (car)…:)

  84. Love it! Oh boy, can I relate. I tore apart our whole house looking for my daughter’s missing sandal and I’m fairly certain it is in my car. It’s just so much work to look in the car (but the house isn’t?). Oy! 🙂

  90. We haven’t used them as much as we did with Will. Probably because I am on the go so much more. Sad. I know.
    xo – kb

  92. haha…nope. I had my weeks off one month and thought for sure that I needed a test. Apparently sleeplessness makes me not know what month it is.
    xo – kb

  94. Thanks for keeping it real! I’m amazed at how much was in there…and interested…was it everywhere like all over the floor, or crammed in all the nooks and crannies? In the boot, or in the front with you guys?!
    I’m a type A freak, I empty the car out everytime we park in the driveway, so I only have the usual sunscreen, lip balm, loose change, green bags, wipes (kid free household-they are for alcohol spills etc haha)

  95. It’s a big SUV so I definitely can pack a lot in! And the white and blue thing is a pillow sham…$1 at the thrift store. I love the vintage stuff like that 🙂
    xo – kb

  105. oh it was everywhere….pockets, door nooks, boxes, bags, just all over the floor, in the trunk…everywhere.
    xo – kb

  107. my personal favorites are the used pregnancy test, used swim diapers and three strollers. That’s all just impressive!

    We currently have an open box of pregnancy tests, a VHS tape of “Easy to Master Card Miracles” (yeah that’s about doing card tricks…), and leftover programs from our wedding 5 years ago (yep they’ve been in there the whole time).

    Love this post 🙂

  108. Found myself laughing out loud as I read this….literally LOL!

    I want to know how there was room to sit!?!

    My boyfriend would have a COW if the car had even 1/10 of that much stuff in it. He makes me crazy because he has to empty stuff out of my car if we are going somewhere (together) and I’m like, “Noooo….I need that tomorrow….and now I’ll forget you took it out.” He also can’t stand anything rattling….as in we have to pull over so he can find it and stop it rattling.

  109. Awesome post!!! I am truly astonished about the amount of stuff you had in there! I kept reading your commentary to DH… he especially liked “nothing says fellowship like a stray boob”. 🙂

  110. I actually wrote a similar (series of) posts a long, long while ago before my wild days as a married couple with a kid. You inspired me to dig it up (hope it fits in comments):

    So this is what I uncovered in the passenger compartment:
    * one paper, foil and glitter Happy New Year tiara
    * one gift bag decorated in coffee mugs
    * one black Sharpie
    * one large hair clip
    * three bottles of water, two of which were still full
    * one empty sunglass case
    * my cellphone earpiece which I thought I lost
    * a rubber Luxo ball
    * a smiley face antenna ball with a graduation cap and three eyes
    * a bag of jacks, complete with bouncy ball
    * 4 half-used notebooks of various sizes
    * a convention badge
    * a gazillion bobby pins from updos I’ve had that I can’t wait until I get home to take out
    * one pair of silver hoop earrings that I’m pretty sure are not mine…one earring I found on the floor, the other was stuck in the rubber seal outside of my front passenger door
    * various color swatches
    * the key to the Honda Accord I used to share with my brothers when we were teens (wtf?)
    * the pieces of a broken crystal pendant that used to hang from my rearview mirror
    * more receipts and maps than I know what to do with
    * several books which I don’t at all recognize and have donated
    * a bag of Ricola cough drops which had opened and distributed its goods all over my backseat
    * one book on Honda Maintenance

    My trunk is so much worse:
    * one unused yoga mat
    * one quilt that was intended to be a beach blanket but didn’t really hold up
    * one wireless keyboard that’s at least 5 years old
    * two pairs of sock (unwashed since I don’t know when and subsequently trashed)
    * two pairs of fuzzy flipflops covered in sand and unidentified muck (likewise trashed)
    * one pair of sadly abused tennis shoes (laid to rest)
    * a bag of clothes that I know is from a beach trip from over a year ago. Ew. I didn’t even open it–just tossed it.
    * a towel which I swear I’ve never seen before
    * an old, old cellphone charger from my ooooooold phone
    * assorted maps, books, receipts and paperwork
    * one opened 12-pack of Canada Dry ginger ale cans, with a couple missing
    * one full, unopened 12-pack of A&W root beer cans. Both have been in my trunk since November and I’m wondering if the temperature fluctuations in my trunk will have made them undrinkable. Probably not.
    * two rolls of gift wrapping paper, one Christmasy and the other all-occassion
    * two Cars movie posters
    * several other movie posters in a poster mailing tube addressed to my mom, which I forgot to send
    * one brown corduroy jacket given to me by my mom which is about 4 sizes too big for me
    * one Canon SnappyQ camera, complete with camera bag, that I think I’ve had since high school.
    * three cute, tiny moose dolls from IKEA
    * one pseudo-suede glove, right hand
    * a pair of purple five-pound weights
    * one pair of expensive black leather boots from an ex
    * two unopened packs of four C size Energizer batteries
    * two license plate frames, which auto-repair shops can’t seem to resist putting on my car
    * a yellow plastic bag with my fire poi in it.
    * one Rand McNally atlas
    * a trunk organizer which I got with the best of intentions but it turned out not to fit my trunk properly and soon submitted to the ideology of “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.”
    * some unopened packages from my work HR, dated exactly 2 years ago, containing out-of-date 401k info.
    * two magnets that say “Life does not put things in front of you that you are unable to handle.”
    * a box containing two votive holders
    * a squeaky rubber chicken

  111. This is awesome. I think I will show my husband, as he thinks I have the dirtiest car EVER. And what’s in there you might ask? Crumbs from the kids’ snacks and a few pebbles and leaves. That’s it. You should see his car. Two years later it still has new-car smell. ;p But can’t really complain… OCD clean husband is the best! 🙂

  112. This is so good. Katie – how did you even fit yourself and two kids in with all that stuff?

  113. I DIED when you said “and a used pregnancy test”. The car is the best choice to leave that gem 😉 you are hilarious!!

  114. Love this post! I’m amazed that all of that fit in your car?! I think I have OCD because I never leave anything in my car, except for a few items in my glove box, a phone book, and a box of tissue – but with that said I don’t have kids yet so that explains alot! I actually wish I was a little more relaxed about messes in my car and my husband’s car. He gets mad at me because whenever we go somewhere in his car, I immediately start cleaning the inside of it as we are driving somewhere. I admire your carefree-ness! 🙂

  115. Loved it. Hilarious as always, you never fail to amuse me.

    But, with all that stuff I can’t help but wonder: Katie, do you drive a bus? Seriously, I can’t imagine more than 2 people fitting into one decent sized car with so much stuff already in there. Ever lost one of your boys in there? 😉

  116. Ok, I have to ask, how big is your car? 🙂

    My husbands pet-peeve is a car with stuff in it and a dirty car, which works out well for me as he likes to get my car washed and cleaned for me.

    Enjoy your newly cleaned car!

  118. Ha! This could be my car. My husband cannot believe all the stuff I have in my car and its just me 97% of the time. My kids are grown and have moved out but believe there are still travel games in the seat pockets.

  119. I would be scared to clean my car out! I used to vacuum my car once a week… now that I have a toddler not so much! Had to put my son’s car seat in someone else’s car and was horrified at the things that fell out!

  120. The car is the place my girls know this: what goes in DOES come out and it comes out immediately after we get home. There’s no paper, left over food items, stray water bottles, dog bones, swim gear, toys,…you get the idea…nothing is left. A car that stinks is a dirty car. Yuck. Lest I come across as holier-than-thou, you should see my garage!

  121. Oh how I wish you had done a before & after pic…

    But, seriously, I’m so anal about “clutter” anywhere that my grocery getter is always super clean. And I have two kids in carseats too. My son rode in a friends car a few weeks ago and when he got back, he said “Momma, Carson’s mommy’s car is SO messy! She should really have things in piles!” ha ha…that’s my boy…training him early!

    Thanks for sharing…I loved this post!

  122. I am a silent reader, but I just had to say THANK YOU for making me feel better about what hubs calls my “dumpster on wheels”. I pull up to Tball practice and see all of the other beautiful car interiors…sparkly and clean, and then I open little man’s car door and everything except the kitchen sink falls out. Slightly embarrassing. I used to have an immaculate car…before I became a Mom. 🙂 I keep saying that I’m not going to let the boys eat in the car anymore, but it’s just about the only place I can get them to stay still long enough to eat! Oh, well, this too shall pass someday, and then I’ll miss the mess (okay, maybe not, LOL!).

  123. This is either amazing or pathetic and I’m not sure which. haha! Either way, it’s hilarious! Thanks for sharing! Is it safe to assume that Jeremy contributes to the oddities rediscovered in the black hole? 244 receipts?!? That is just impressive. Well done, Bowers!

  124. This is funny & makes me feel so much better about the bag of golf themed glasses from my Grandpa that have yet to be taken to Goodwill. It’s only been 6 weeks!

  125. So did any of that stuff actually go back IN the car? I can see some of it being pretty handy!
    And when are they going to invent built in car organization systems with drawers and things? Wouldn’t that be awesome?!

  128. Wow! I kept reading expecting it to end, but another category kept coming up. You are too funny. Now I’m interested to see what I have in my car….

  129. I was dying over this post! You definitely win the prize for “Most Prepared For Armageddon If Trapped In The Car”! It reminds me of the time when we were parking in the church parking lot one morning, unloading kids, and I glanced over at my friend, who was also hunched over in her minivan unloading kids, and she had Cheerios stuck to her booty! LOL Evidently they were on her car seat and well, yeah, they “decorated” her backside. I helped her out by notifying her of their presence and we both got a good laugh out of it. Life with kids is never boring!

  130. My mother inherited her dad’s car when he upgraded. About 8 years later, she dropped in that dreaded black hole between the console and the driver’s seat. Once she was elbow deep under the front seat, she pulled out a Moon Pie. I guess my grandpa was squirreling away snacks for a rainy day. After 8+ years of living under the seat in hot Georgia summers, that Moon Pie still looked the exact same as one off the shelf. Scary!

  131. I’m laughing so hard!!! I can’t believe you found all of that inside your car!! Do you own a truck!?
    My car doesn’t have anything inside of it, except for our sunglasses, some paper napkins, water, big blue ikea bags for the supermarket, and CD’s. That’s it!
    I would die if I found all of that in mine!!

  132. Wow!! That has to be a record for the amount of stuff found in your car!! I totally did the same thing recently (without having kids) and totally found a random bathroom sink faucet fixture I forgot I put in there to donate!! Oh and 10 spoons! I was wondering why I barely had any in the house!

  133. HI-larious. I’m surprised I didn’t see a box of tissues in there – that’s the one thing I always wish I had in my car…

    Also, the safety mom in me feels the need to say that any lose items in a car, during an accident, can become pretty harmful projectiles. I try to keep most items in my trunk/glove compartment/center console for that reason. If, God forbid, something were to happen, I don’t want my toddler losing an eye because I left something lying around…

  135. I’m kind of a neat freak when it comes to my car, so mine is pretty empty aside from the dog’s poop bags and leashes. My SIL, on the other hand, cleaned 200 pounds of stuff out of the trunk of her car before she sold it. Well, my brother cleaned it out and yes, he actually weighed the car before and after.

  137. This post just made my day! I can’t believe you found all that in your car. You must drive a tank or a school bus. I read your blog every day, and I never comment. This post was awesome. Keep up the good work!

  138. ok, do you not just love that Very Sexy for Him cologne?! I could eat someone when I smell it!

  140. I had a tile saw, a corded drill, a full pot & pan set, a change of clothes, probably 10 Starbucks cups, and a box of my husband’s old school books. For like, two weeks….. And now – the tile saw and drill are out of there but everything else is staying for at least another week. I’m going on vacation and ain’t nobody got time for that!

  141. Omgosh, I love you and your crazy! I’m DYING laughing over here! I was trying to guess how long it could have taken for that number of items to accumulate! My hubby has a fit when I get to about 10 items in the car.. I guess that’s a good thing because I have an SUV as well so it here’s a lot of space to fill 🙂

  144. I laughed-out-loud-almost-spill-coffee-all-over-my-work-computer’ed over this post. Love it! 🙂 Happy 4th of July, Katie B!

  147. Okay. This is amazing! I have to show this to my husband so he knows I’m not the only one in the world with that much stuff in a car!!! I’m pretty impressed.

  148. I had a mouse. That’s right, a live mouse was living in my car. The worst part is how I found out. I got pulled over for speeding and went to get my license and registration and I opened the glove box and there was all of this shredded paper. I looked closer and there was mouse poop and it looked like the little guy’s bed. I asked the officer if he thought it was a mouse nest and he said “yes.” Then he said, “That is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen” and let me go without a ticket. I guess the mouse was good for something 🙂 My husband still teases me that when he finally caught the mouse, it was the fatest mouse he had ever seen. So. Gross.

  150. For the life of me, I just can’t understand how a used pregnancy tester stick could wind up in your vehicle?

    Very funny post! Happy 4th!

  153. . . . probably only *PIQUES the interest of a rare bird like me. It’s like *PEEKING inside someone’s medicine cabinet.
    A “peak” is the top of a mountain.

  154. I was directed here from the YHL blog, and this post is too funny!!!!!
    I have a TON of stuff in my litte kia, diapers, shoes, boxes of cereal, soda, hairbows, coupons….ugh….the list goes on and on….I always find a chicken nugget or french fry…ALWAYS!!!!

  155. 6 years ago we went to thanksgiving at a friends house and I brought my fancy lip gloss (from our wedding) – then i lost it :(. when I cleaned the car out a couple weeks ago I found it!!!!! Still using it 🙂 may give me cancer…

  157. This is like a purse reveal on steroids. I love it, and I seriously get it. A couple of weeks ago I gave my 3 year old mad propz for finishing her cheeseburger. Monday was sure a happy day when I found the rock-hard patty tucked neatly in between car seats. This is why I let my coworkers drive to lunch.

  158. Holy “Chick Fila” Cow. Do you drive a limo? Where did you fit al of that stuff?

  161. This post made me so happy! Thank you for thinking of this. It should really be done by more bloggers. So real life.

  164. My car must look exactly the same as yours (minus the extra car seat since I only have one child). It horrifies my Mother every time she sees my car but I have to say I am prepared for many things ((1)random play dates–frisbees, hula hoops, Barbies anyone??? (2)A Torential down pour– 3 umbrellas (3) Extra clothes to wear after you have been drenched by the downpour because you forgot to take one of the 3 umbrellas with you. (4) Coats—because you never know when you will get cold–in July no less (it can happen, just ask my daughter when I freeze her out with the air conditioning because I am having a hot flash…UGH!! I could go on and on…LOL!! Loved the post Katie!!

  165. My goodness girl, what kind of car do you drive – that is insane!!! You’re going to feel like your getting a new car when it comes back!

    You definitely win whatever prize gets handed out for this sort of thing! 🙂

  170. That was hilarious. The stuff just kept coming! I really thought the one and half pairs of earrings was funny.

  171. holy smokes! but, the whole peeking inside someone else’s car, medicine cabinet, purse thing always gets me interested 🙂

    the 6 random undergarments cracks me up the most! im assuming they are yours and your lovely boyfriends? 🙂 will there be another announcement soon! when the car is rockin….
    (sorry to your mom in advance)

  172. That’s hysterical! Our van is the exact same way. I’m always horrified by the amount of old food and other crap I end up finding when I clean it out. A few years ago (when we only had 2 kids instead of 4) my van broke down and had to be towed to the dealership. It was a disaster and when we picked it up the guy asked, “How many kids do you have?!” I said 2 and immediately regretted telling the truth. I should’ve said at least 5 based on the mess.

  173. How? I mean… I just… how?? Maybe because I don’t have kids? I just… I don’t… I am in awe. And a little speechless.

  174. Katie Bower,
    I could not stop laughing reading this post………I’m a regular reader to your blog but nothing could give me that push to comment your blogs……….I do not know what to say………but it is kind of similar for me that how many things I find in my car when we clean our car just before picking/dropping some frds at airport……..I’m quite surprised how didn’t you find any empty recycle water bottles in there and some hats/caps……..i would add these two to my list too…..

  175. I can totally relate! Since the little one came along, it’s unusual for my car not to be trashed. I now park at the back of the lots whenever I go shopping because I’m so paranoid that someone will park beside me and see the inside of it!

    My husband always tells me that I would get better gas milege if I removed all of the excess weight! 🙂

  176. This.Is.Crazy!!! I thought my car was bad, you lady, you have a whole Target store going on in there!! Hilarious! Thanks for sharing!

  177. Holy moly!! You should have taken a pic of the car pre-cleaning and post-cleaning! LOL

  178. Can I just say how much I loved this post?! I recently cleaned out my car too and I wish I would have thought to document all of the weird and random things I found. I thought I was bad but you definitely have me beat! I have one basket of “survival” items in the trunk with blankets, towels, TP, water, hats, mittens, gloves, etc. because I’m terrified of getting stranded in the snow; during the winter months, of course. Now that it’s all clean, do you feel like you have a brand new car?

  179. Looks like you need a twelve step program for the unorganized, LOL, , or a hoarders intervention!

    I’m the organized one in my family ( my daughter is carrying on my genetics, too) so I would twitch with that much crapola in my car. My wonderful hubby is a guy who isn’t bothered by piles of stuff…it’s all about comfort levels.

  180. Love this post! I can so relate! Pretty sure we could live out of our car for a week 😉

  181. Can I just say I love you?! I cannot believe you had all that in your car, but I can understand it! I bet it feels so nice and clean in there… and you feel like you went shopping like you said. I laughed too hard and too loud at the “nothing says fellowship like a stray boob” comment.

  183. An awesome post. Ever since we bought our new car I’ve really payed attention to cleaning it every week. I’m trying to hang onto that new car smell, which is hard to do after 3 months, and with one kid and a stroller continously going in and out with yucky stuff on the tires. 🙂

  185. i’m thinking a new show called “Hoarders-Planes, Trains and AUTOMOBILES” – you’d make a great host Katie!! 🙂

  186. my sister used to complain when getting in my car that it smelled like hamburgers and fries.. Yes on occasion one might find a french fry and/or onion ring that got away… never as good as when fresh out of the fryer.

  187. Do you drive a bus?

    Seriously, how big is your car for all of that to fit in it? I kept scrolling thinking the post was going to end, but there was always just more stuff! Too funny…

  188. This is awesome. Judging by the number of comments, you’re not the only rare bird! When we found out I was pregnant we got a new car (love my Outback) and so far, I’ve managed to keep it really clean. My husband’s car on the other hand…… I just don’t even know. I cleaned it out a few months ago (some stroke of wifely love, I guess) and found 4 swords. 4. I can’t make this up. I had no idea they were in there. I guess we are ready for the zombie apocalypse.

  189. There can’t be more (scroll down)
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    wow!!!!! is this possible? (scroll down)
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    Where’s the before and after? what car do you drive that can have a CVS/Target/Kohls/ToysRus/Carter’s/Gap all in there the same time? you are so funny!
    (btw, my coworker said my ‘file’ cabinet is like a cvs in there.. lol)

  190. Holy cow!!!! Everytime I thought it would end you added something else. Katie your blog has been cracking me up lately. Thank you, I need good laughs from time to time 🙂

  191. This post is hilarious! I’ve very impressed with how much stuff was lost in your car! I got a new (to us) suv about a month ago and I’ve made it my life goal to keep if free of junk. Which basically means, my purse and kitchen counter are now piled with crap. Haha. But my car is clean!!

  192. Suddenly my dirty car feels cleaner. 🙂 I am actually impressed that I didn’t see any photography related stuff. I can almost always find a lens cap under the seat.

  194. omg. This was the best thing I’ve ever read. Truly amazing. And I’m so glad it was all in your car, not mine 🙂

    In high school I opened a friend’s glove compartment and found a can of minced clams. God only knows why that was in there, but she came from the kind of family where finding something like that was totally normal!

  195. Get ready to cringe people, the most random, gross, disgusting thing I ever found in my car….three small mice!!!!!!!!! CREEP ME THE F OUT. They were alive. It’s so sick but I will retell the story for you all.
    First, we live in CO in a beautiful community that has tons of critters all around. There are deer, bunnies, bears, and sadly, small little mice. We were going on a hike with the kids and put our rarely used Jeep stroller into the car, after it spent quite some time stored in a random corner of our garage. We tossed it in the back, without opening it up, drove an hour to our hiking destination, pulled it out, opened it up and guess what ran out? Two small mice, we just drove for an hour with all our kids in the car and two small mice, well at the time, I thought it was only two. After gagging and almost puking at the mere thought of what would have happened if we noticed the mice while we were driving, or if it ran up my leg, or jumped in my face…..SO SICK and scary.

    So, we got ourselves together, put the stroller back in the car (because no way am I putting my kid in the mouse infested stroller) and happily went on our hike, while we traded off carrying the little one.

    Fast forward a couple days ahead of time when I finally decide to tackle the job of getting all the stuff from the hike, out of the back of my car. I’m pulling some clothes out and guess what I see? A ROGUE mouse. It had been living in my car for three freaking days! The thought of it to this very day, makes me want to hurl. We ended up getting it out but the thinking one might be left in my car, made me want to sell the darn thing. I didn’t do that but I did take it to a full service car wash, I figured I had been traumatized enough and if the guys cleaning my car found another mouse, a hefty tip would help them with their trauma. They cleaned every inch of the car, no more mice.

  196. Ha ha!! I just told my mouse story and then scrolled up and saw this. I’m glad to know that I am not the only one that has had to endure this type of trauma. Maybe we should start a support group. Do you think there are others?

  197. I just did this too! My husband tricked me into cleaning mine out by saying we had to drive to the baseball game (our friends drove us in their nice clean car!) So I spent 4 hours sitting on my driveway, trying not to crush the tiny toads, with all the junk from my car surrounding me in piles while I sorted it. The most odd item I found was my “back up” breast pump – the hand pump I stashed under the seat just in case I forgot the big mamma electric pump at home. Other than that, I pretty much had the same items (and amounts) that you did! Except that now I am worried that if we get stuck in a ditch somewhere (we live in Wisconsin, it can happen) we won’t be able to live in the car for a week like we could before. We will have to build up the base of discarded food before winter…

  198. You have an Armada, yes? That’s probably our next car. Stoked to learn that I can cram a lot of crap in it!! My Rogue just doesn’t have the junk-in-the-trunk capacity that the Armada does. My future in this post… 🙂

  199. Wow, I don’t feel so bad about MY car now! The weirdest/grossest thing I ever found in my car was an old moldy pumpkin pie under the driver’s seat. I put it on the floor behind the seat and forgot about it since it slid under my seat while I was driving. Months later I discovered it after I started wondering what that smell was in my car…

  200. This was an amazing post! I have so much trouble keeping my car looking decent. Question how many cheerios were in the bottom? I think I have a whole box spread out on the floor.

  201. i am so glad i am not the only one with a used pregnancy test in their car. honestly we could be car twins for real. i adore you for writing this post!

  202. I am so happy that there is someone else in the world just like me! The was a great post!

  203. I’ll be sharing this with my husband so he’ll get off my back about my messy car (most from transporting two boys as well). This was fantastic.

  205. I’m glad I’m not the only one! I just cleaned out my car that I’d owned for 10 years to trade it in for a new car. I found so much weird crap in there. Including a love letter and some pictures of my husband and I from when we first started dating! It was at the very bottom of the console beneath 30 CD cases and bunch of other junk. I feel sorry for the car detailers at the auto dealership… 🙂

  206. My car is a war zone and I don’t even have any kids!. Also, I am oober jealous that you get to experience Chick-Fil-A. I wish they would open some up here in Oregon!

  208. Good grief Katie, what are you driving a bus?! This was such an awesome post. Thanks for keeping it real.

  209. I love reading your blog, and todays post is just one reason why! Why do you keep toilet paper in the car? I have a collapsible square basket that I try to keep on the seat next to me, and since I have started doing that, everything seems a little more organized, and there really is less stuff in the car 🙂 It won’t fit in the basket!

  210. I thought for a minute there you were cleaning out my mini-van. Glad to know I’m not alone. 🙂

  211. Holy smokes! My car is messy, but mostly filled with stuff for the car (oil, washer fluid, brake fluid, scraper, etc). I have a blanket in the back seat (that I will hopefully eventually get put in the trunk) for winter emergencies/summer picnics. Lots of dust and pebbles on the floor. A few weeks ago I bought a few bins at the dollar store to organize stuff in my trunk and use for a garbage can.

  214. This had me in hysterics. I can’t believe all that stuff fit in a vehicle and there was still room for people! …And to think, these were only the highlights 😉 You’re a hoot, Katie!

  216. Oh Katie – you have made my day. I just cleaned out my car this weekend because of a “mystery smell” that ended up being an old Arby’s bag that still had food in it…and blech…it’s making me gag just thinking about it. I had to pre-vacuum my car because I was too embarrassed for the car wash guys to see what the floors really looked like (we could have survived for at least a week on Cheez-Its alone and my boys would be entertained for that week building with all the random Lego pieces). Glad to know I am not alone.

  217. I love this so much! Right now among with the other crap, the weirdest thing I have is a bottle of laundry detergent, once I found it, I drove around for a week trying to figure out how it got there, then I remembered it was from vacation a year ago when we used it in the beach house…at this point, I figure just keep it there I’ll need it again in about another month!

  218. LOVE THIS! I absolutely adore your blog and it thrills me that you admit to being “normal” like the rest of us! It makes me even more enamored of you and your cute family!

  219. i think this is the best post ever! you are hilarious and I love how you and Sheri keep it real…that’s what keeps us reading.

  220. How did all of that fit in your car?? This blog makes me giggle all the time. I love the random life post. Keep them coming!

  221. I have to say, this totally made my day! I’m glad I’m not the only one who cleans out the car only to find copious amounts of random junk, along with a few “where in the world did that come from” items. 🙂 But, being a mom of three and a fellow photographer, there have been plenty of times after photoshoots that my car practically explodes all over my driveway. Reflecting board, granola bars, random props, balloons, backdrops, shoes, happy meal toys, diapers, empty wipe containers, clothes, clothes and more clothes! I think someone needs to invent “car maids” so I can hire one.

  223. This was hilarious to me, quintessential Katie Bower. Thanks for the chuckle and the “you’re not alone” moment! xo

  224. Okay Miss Spelling Bee…you missed *rouge instead of *rogue…if you are gonna critique at least get it all! lol.

    Misspellings and all I love ya Katie! And I love these kind of posts. Honestly, these and Will and Weston posts are my favorite. 😉

  226. Funny post BUT for privacy reasons, You may want to blurr out those names on that letter. Address is easily found!

  227. I died when I saw this…my car is so out of control! Thanks fir not being perfect!

  228. HOLY. CRAP. I couldn’t even fit all that stuff in my car! Where did you ever fit it all???

  232. A few years ago, I moved four times in 8 months. When I FINALLY settled down (and decided to sell my smallish SUV that I had basically been living out of…) I found a queen size HEADBOARD that I had thought I had accidentally thrown away!!! haha

    Also..how do you accidentally throw away a headboard?

  233. Haha- I had the same sentiment as Renee, “holy crap!” Wow.

    Side note, in high school my best friend once said to me, “you know your car isn’t a dumpster.” : )

  235. I too love this post. When my children were all being driven around, my vehicle was always in need of a clean-up. My husband did complain. What he did not realize is there were four people in the car on a regular basis and only one person doing clean-up. We did not have a garage so if it was raining when we arrived home, things were left – to accumulate!
    Thanks for sharing your real life!

  237. Katie. Bower. You. are. Hilarious. Thanks for always sharing your crazy wonderful life with us! I absolutely LOVE it when you keep it real. 🙂

  238. Your car = my purse. It weighs about 20 pounds. Heartburn? Sore throat? Got it. Flat tire? Got that too. Thanks for keeping it real, Katie! xoxo

  242. I actually laughed out loud reading this post. I’ve been meaning to clean out my car for some time now, and I’m pretty sure I’ll find some random stuff in there when I do. I know there is a pack-n-play in the back that has been in there since February. D’oh.

  244. I loved this post! So happy to know I’m not the only one who finds random crap in their car. Unfortunately, I don’t have kids yet, so all the random stuff is my fault! haha

  245. Your car is exactly like mine! However, I have no kids to blame half of it on. *blushes*

  246. I have to ask… do you drive a conversion van? 😉 I wouldn’t be able to fit in my car if all this stuff was in it.

  247. The same thing also happens to me. I think I can already do shopping in my car. Like you, the weirdest item I found is a needle. I am shocked because I never sew, quilt, or anything. It’s not my hobby. Sometimes, it’s funny finding things in your car that you don’t expect to be there. 🙂

  248. I keep toilet paper in the car too…just in case you need to make an emergency road side stop, my husband has the bladder size of a large elephant, and mine much much smaller, and he believes we should not stop until he has to pee. Plus, lets be honest, you never know when you might be called to partake in a TPing of a house, and I always like to be prepared.

  249. I want to see how you organize some of that BACK IN your car. Because honestly you know you need some of it. We totally do live in our cars. We’re like a play date/triage mobile.

  250. I completely relate to this post. In fact, my friend begged to clean my car for me a few days ago. My van will now be nice and clean and organized for at least a week!!!

  252. Few and far between. I wanted to again but with the laundry room up on the docket, we just never transitioned to it and now I am questioning whether we will at all. Maybe once the room is done, I’ll be on a huge laundry kick and pick it back up…that’s the beauty in it.
    xo – kb

  253. Funniest post ever written! Seriously. I just sat here laughing on my couch through the entire thing.

  255. This post totally warmed my heart! I am, by nature, a very organized person, who likes everything to have a logical place in which to reside. If you were to look at our car, however, you would NEVER discern this about me! My husband and I have two boys – ages 5 and 9 – and one car. Our poor, poor car!!! At any given time, it may contain anything from wet swimwear to old (old, old, old) cracker crumbs. If we can’t find something in our house, we automatically say “It must be in the car” and we are usually right! The level of disarray make me crazy! I feel as though I am perpetually cleaning it out, yet it always looks the same by the end of the day. Sigh. I realize that it won’t always be like this. Eventually, it will be just my husband and I again and that we will probably mourn the loss of things like broken crayons discovered half-melted into the car upholstery…but now is now. Soggy crumbs, meaningless toys from birthday party loot bags and/or unfortunate drive though meals, and never-ending pieces of assorted paper need to find a new home (just not in our home!). Fingers crossed! 🙂

  256. Holy goodness! Oh. my. word. You made me feel so much better about myself. haha.

  257. Love this post! Totally reminds me of my car and purse! When you’re hauling around two kids there is no chance to “unpack” the car on everyday trips. Only wish my husband was a nice as yours and would detail my “family” car!

  258. Wow. I didn’t know it was even POSSIBLE to fit that much stuff in one’s car. It’s like you have a clown car full of junk. Impressive, Ms. Poppins! 😉

  260. Ok this is hilarious! Love this post. I’m so sending it to my husband to read! He only thinks our car is messy:) ha! 🙂

  261. Once you prove you are normal. 🙂

    By the way, is that L’Oreal blush compact I see? If so, they have discontinued that packaging/line. I used to buy a blush in that exact same compact but it’s now a goner. 🙁

  262. My concern is that now you have all this stuff in your house taking up space…I’m trying to declutter before baby arrives, so that’s what my mind first went to – I want to get rid of things not bring in new stuff =)

  263. haha…yeah…most of it went into the wash and into the toy bins….but I feel ya, it’s time for decluttering here as well.
    o – kb

  264. Ahahah! Just catching up on some posts and found this one!

    I, too, let my little man carry one toy to the car each morning– and SURPRISE none of them seem to ever make it back into the house! Unluckily, many of them DO make it into daycare, which is almost always followed with an explanation on my part.

    For instance, last week Wyatt carried with him a pair of salad tongs. He has recently discovered that our sleek, no knob kitchen drawers have a pull hold grooved out on the bottom side, so kitchen utensils have become his one-toy choice. Imagine a 21 mo. old walking into his classroom with a sippy cup in one hand and a pair of tongs in the other, ready for the day!

    The other kids are always super jealous.

    And the teachers always give me a slightly odd look too. 😉

    Other random items found: an Easter basket filled with shoes, a set of spare keys (not toy keys, mind you), a remote to a dvd player (which we do not own and never have), and a set of RCA cables. I have no idea.

  266. Katie you crack me up! My favorite part of this post was the fact that you counted your receipts!! I usually clean out my car once or twice a week. I don’t vacuum or wash it that often but I have to get the junk out. Sadly I usually eat 1-2 meals a day in my car so after a few weeks I would have no dishes left in my kitchen. Last week Brian cleaned out his car and brought in about 18 of our cups/mugs.

  268. Hahahahahahahahaha! This is seriously AWESOME! I think I have just as much stuff, if not more in my car! This makes me feel good. I will have to show my husband this post so he knows that I’m not the only one.

  269. just catching up on all the posts. i could take it until i got to the three table cloths!! haha i literally spat water out on the laptop! i can relate!!! kudos to you for finding time to blog and be a mommy and a wife and so many other roles that we take on every day. God bless
    congrats on the new baby on the way:)

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